Building & Painting The Sloppy Jalopy 28mm 1/56th scale T62 MBT

The latest 28mm modern AFV kit to be released by Sloppy Jalopy is the Soviet T-62 MBT.

The kit was cleanly cast, and very straight forward to put together. Their was a very thin film of resin between the wheels that was easily cleaned up with a hobby knife and a small file.

After gluing the tracks to the hull, the next thing to do is to glue the Turret Mountings to the hull as shown to either side of the turret apeture.

The only other pieces to be added to the hull are the optional supplementary fuel drums which are glued in place as shown.

The pieces that combine to make the turret include the hand rails, hatches, searchlight, machine gun and gun barrel.

The mounting holes for the handrails are cast in the turret, but I found it better to open these up a little with a pin vice to get a more secure fit. While I did the pin vice out I also drilled into the end of the main gun.

Once the glue had dried, I sprayed the hull and turret seperately with some spray primer. As I had some I used Dunkelb Yellow as I planned to paint my T-62 as in Syrian rather than Soviet service.

The tank was very easy to paint. In fact I only used 3 colors and 1 ink.